Huilan had also finished bathing and was half-leaning on the cushion.

"Of course, don't look at who I am? I am the best at refining medicine, these things are trivial."

"Yes, you are the best. Go to sleep, maybe I can bring you some gifts tomorrow."

"what gift?"

Huilan grabbed his arm and asked anxiously, unable to wait for a moment.

Li Chengze took off her hairband, and her hair was like a waterfall, as smooth as satin, and it felt very good in his hands.

He pinched her hair and played with it, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it, the faint scent of roses.

"Well, the Ma family will definitely make an apology to you. I will bring it back to you later. They will probably be too embarrassed to come to your place."

Li Chengze half-closed his eyes, pinching her hair and playing with it. The touch was so comfortable that he slowly relaxed.

"Okay, silver is the most precious thing to me."

Huilan smiled and lay down.

Within two days, I heard that the queen's sister-in-law came to the palace to visit the queen.

In fact, the daughter of the Ma family who will be selected to enter the East Palace, Ma Wenwen, is not the queen's biological niece, but the daughter of a branch of the Ma family. In fact, she is already a bit far away, but she is still within the fifth server.

Only her identity has the closest relationship with the Queen's branch. They are all divided from the direct branch, and Ma Wenwen's age meets the conditions for entering the palace. Others are not suitable and there is nothing they can do.

Ma Wenwen's mission is to give birth to a child, and she must have a son to contribute to the future of the Ma family.

But if you really want to say how close your relationship with the Queen is, that's not necessarily the case.

This Madam Ma is the queen's sister-in-law, and she specially came to speak for Ma Wenwen.

"The Queen, Wenwen has come especially to apologize to you."

"My face has been completely humiliated by her, and I can't afford to apologize. It's stupid."

"Yes, but she is also very smart and difficult to control. How can she be easily used by you and me? She is the only one of the right age and has a relatively obedient personality. Her family is also willing to cling to this wealth."

"Forget it, that's it, there's no need to go to the East Palace anymore, the emperor is keeping a close eye and can't do anything more.

Just ask the prince to take the apology back later. She is just a concubine, so there is no need to pay such attention to her. It is just to give that wolf cub some face."

The queen's expression was scornful.

Mrs. Ma sighed helplessly in her heart. She was obviously raised as soon as the grass fell, but the mother and son were separated. Who can blame them?

If he was willing to protect the prince with all his heart, there would be no need for so many crooked tricks now.

She, the sister-in-law, had a smooth life, but she suffered a setback when it came to the child, and she and the emperor were divorced. Not to mention that the prince was not his biological son, so it was useless to persuade him, and he still went his own way.

Mrs. Ma said her goodbyes and left the palace after a while. She didn't want to bow down to a concubine, so she might as well just listen to the queen and let Li Chengze take the apology back.

It was this attitude that prevented Li Chengze from getting close to the Ma family. He was too snobbish and condescending. Even the prince and the others dared to look down on him. Why, just because the queen was a daughter of the Ma family.

Li Chengze went to the queen's place in the afternoon, sat there for a while, and this time got white tea, and also gave Mrs. Ma the apology gift she had brought in.

"These are the apology gifts given to that girl. You can take them back to Liang Di. It's not easy to worry about how things ended up like this."

Although there is no romantic relationship with Ma's daughter, it is impossible for someone whose surname is Ma to help Huilan, and she has to step on her feet.

"Miss Ma's temper is too big. She dares to curse people in front of Gu and even wants to hit them, haha!"

Li Chengze just chuckled twice.

The queen was losing her face. This was indeed Ma Wenwen's fault and it was completely unreasonable.

"You can teach me more when you enter the East Palace. Isn't there a princess? You can go back first."

"yes."

Li Chengze didn't stay much and asked people to take things back to the East Palace.

When they arrived at Qinghui Garden, Chang Ji put things on the table for Huilan.

"These are the Ma family's apology to you."

The gold, silver, jewelry, medicinal materials, etc. are very complete, which can be said to be a big deal.

"Lilacs are included in the register, and the medicinal materials sent by his family are marked separately and put aside."

Huilan gave special instructions.

"yes."

"His things are not marked. You can keep them for appreciation. If you don't like them, you don't have to wear them."

"Yes, Zelang, did the queen give you a hard time?"

"No, she is busy preparing for my wedding and can't take care of this. Moreover, it is not easy for the Ma family's daughter to enter the East Palace. It is considered to be her wish. She will not embarrass me during this period."

"That's good, I'm still worried."

Huilan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now the Second Prince and several other princes are chasing and intercepting her fiercely. If she fights with me again, the enemy will snicker, and naturally they will die down."

Li Chengze went back to his dormitory to rest without staying overnight in the afternoon. Tomorrow he was going to work in the Ministry of Punishment, and he officially started to be exposed to court affairs. Naturally, he had to study hard.

There are still a lot of files in the Ministry of Punishment that need to be read. I will study them first and then talk about them. It may be too late to disturb Huilan's sleep.

Huilan gave him a bottle of spiritual liquid and asked him to use it to drop his eyes. Don't tire yourself. Li Chengze left with satisfaction.

The weather is getting colder, a wind blows, and winter is about to come. All the leaves on the trees have fallen off, and the palace people are busy sweeping the yard.

Li Chengze rested in his dormitory for more than ten days in a row without calling any women to sleep with him.

Huilan vaguely understood that Li Chengze was worried that others would spread his reputation of doting on her, which might be harmful to her, so she refused to come.

These days, Huilan is very diligent in practicing martial arts, taking medicinal baths, reading calligraphy and drawing talismans, and storing a batch of mature medicinal materials in the space into categories.

It's winter, and Li Chengze thoughtfully sent a lot of good wine over.

She took the opportunity to put the spirit wine brewed in the space into the wine, and brewed some more to exist in the space.

She was so busy that she lost track of time, and it soon became really cold. She finally made Li Chengze a winter coat just in time for the cold weather, as well as a black fox fur cloak, covered with black Yuandu, embroidered with gold thread.

With the dragon pattern, he is mighty, handsome and very good-looking.

Li Chengze was so busy that he didn't come to see her until the first three-nine days.

"I haven't seen you in a while. Has your face gained weight?"

Li Chengze sat down before she could salute her, and held her lovingly in his arms.

"Am I really fat? Well, it seems I ate too much, but Zelang seems to have lost weight."

Huilan hugged him and laughed softly.

"I'm doing very well. I'm practicing the exercises very smoothly and I'm making progress."

"That's good. I made you a set of clothes, shoes and socks, and I said I would send them to you. You came just in time. How about you stay for dinner today? I asked someone to stew the soup and I was going to send it to you.

I'm here just in time to have something hot to drink."

"Okay, I'll stay with you today. I've finally sorted things out. You can breathe a sigh of relief."
Chapter completed!